GREAT PERFORMANCES partnered with San Francisco Opera, one of the nation's leading opera companies, to record Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's adaptation of the classic Herman Melville novel Moby Dick. Filmed fresh from his headline-making appearance as a last-minute replacement in the title role of Siegfried in the Met Opera's epic Ring Cycle, Jay Hunter Morris starred as the obsessive Captain Ahab, delivering a bravura performance.

American Harry Gordon Selfridge brought about a complete revolution in the way Londoners shopped, introducing a new American retail model that made shopping less a practical pursuit and more a luxurious adventure. Keen to put the shopper's experience above anything else, Selfridge coined the expression "the ...

While waiting for his Super Grover cape to be cleaned at the coin laundry, Grover becomes a superhero called the Iron Monster to help fellow patrons with their problems. But he only makes things worse until Leela intervenes.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW packed a trunkful of treasures to share from the six cities visited during the Season 17 tour. Junk in the Trunk 3" is a new episode with never-before-seen appraisals from ROADSHOW's 2013 season, including a Myrtle Beach guest with a sports collection that would make any Celtics fan tu...

This mini-series is a journey into the heart of American education. More than a survey of contemporary policy challenges, it is an intimate and honest exploration of how students, their families and teachers are faring in a stressed public education system, during a politically complex climate, and dur...

The Age of Slavery illustrates how black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. For free black people in places like Philadelphia, these years were a time of tremendous opportunity. But for most African Americans, this era represented a n...

Hundreds - possibly thousands - of children disappeared from El Salvador in the midst of that country's civil war in the 1980s. Ninos de la Memoria follows three of those children as they return to their native country in search of identity and answers.

Cory Mann is a quirky Tlingit businessman hustling to make a dollar in Juneau, Alaska. He gets hungry for smoked salmon, nostalgic for his childhood, and decides to spend a summer smoking fish at his family's traditional fish camp. The unusual story of his life and the untold history of his people interweave wit...

The Age of Slavery illustrates how black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. For free black people in places like Philadelphia, these years were a time of tremendous opportunity. But for most African Americans, this era represented a n...

Hundreds - possibly thousands - of children disappeared from El Salvador in the midst of that country's civil war in the 1980s. Ninos de la Memoria follows three of those children as they return to their native country in search of identity and answers.

Cory Mann is a quirky Tlingit businessman hustling to make a dollar in Juneau, Alaska. He gets hungry for smoked salmon, nostalgic for his childhood, and decides to spend a summer smoking fish at his family's traditional fish camp. The unusual story of his life and the untold history of his people interweave wit...

The Age of Slavery illustrates how black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. For free black people in places like Philadelphia, these years were a time of tremendous opportunity. But for most African Americans, this era represented a n...

Hundreds - possibly thousands - of children disappeared from El Salvador in the midst of that country's civil war in the 1980s. Ninos de la Memoria follows three of those children as they return to their native country in search of identity and answers.